ColorZen Wins Innovation Competition at 2018 Copenhagen Fashion Summit
This year, the world’s largest event on sustainability in fashion, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, included an Innovation Competition that saw 12 finalists pitch their technologies onstage in front of a panel of expert judges and Summit attendees. After a series of presentations and judging sessions over the two day event, the winner was announced: ColorZen.
The Change Fashion Challenge (CFC) focuses on creating innovation to pioneer the future of fashion and create a new sustainable ecosystem in the fashion industry. ColorZen was invited to give a 5-minute presentation on its revolutionary technology that completely re-engineers the way cotton is dyed. Watch CEO & Founder Michael Harari’s full speech here.
The trouble with turning white cotton black—or almost any color—is that the plant emits a strong negative electric charge, which repels dye just as two magnets oppose each other. The current solution is essentially to infuse the dye slurry with salt, so it sticks to the fibers. But the process sucks up a lot of […]
The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, which took place last month, may be a distant memory for some, but not for the businesses that took part in the “speed-dating” sessions and Innovations pitch competition aimed at connecting solution providers with big businesses such as H&M Group, Stella McCartney and Asos. One of these solution providers is ColorZen, who also prevailed as the […]
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